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... FR4151 11.04.05 Emma Douglas Examine the process of language / dialect death and illustrate its working in twentieth-century France Language death refers to the process of extinction or obsolescence of a language or dialect because it no longer fulfils the social and political needs of the community who speak it. Despite the continued importance given to the regional languages and dialects in France (and France's recent signing of la charte européene des langues regionale et minoritaires in 1999)1, the history of political centralisation, which is unique to France, has led to irreversible situations of diglossia where the regional dialect or language lacks in prestige and becomes marginalised. For the purpose of this paper I will discuss the two processes of language death, which Aitchison describes as 'language murder' and 'language suicide'.2 The process of 'language suicide' will be defined and in turn illustrated in an examination of la langue d'Oïl dialects. Likewise I will
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